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Eido II (also noted as Aico, Ido, Egidius, Aigo, Eiko or Heiko; died 1045 or 1046), was Bishop of Meissen from 1040 to 1045 or 1046. Bishop Eido II is documented solely in the context of a gift by Emperor Henry III to the bishopric of Meissen, at the instigation and on the recommendation of Humfrid,
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, and Margrave Ekkehard I of Meissen; Eido is supposed to have been a friend of Ekkehard.Eduard Machatschek: ''Geschichte der Bischöfe des Hochstiftes Meissen in chronologischer Reihenfolge (...)'', pp. 50-55. Dresden 1884 Eido's death, according to Machatschek, occurred either in the last part of 1045 or in the first half of 1046.


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Roman Catholic bishops of Meissen 1046 deaths Year of birth unknown {{Germany-RC-bishop-stub